The Survey of Scottish Witchcraft

1563-1736

By Julian Goodare, Lauren Martin, Joyce Miller and Louise Yeoman, January 2003

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Case Details

C/EGD/33 Tibbie Smart

name of accused
Tibbie Smart
designated title
no information
Accused Reference
A/EGD/22
Case date start
no information
Given case date
no information
Case commission
no information
case complaint
no information
case correspondence
no information
case chronicle
no information
other details
no information

characterisation

  • folk healing (secondary characteristic)
  • maleficium (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (secondary characteristic)
  • not enough information (primary characteristic)
Characterisation Notes
She was consulted by a group of people to get revenge.
additional persons
name involvement notes
no additional persons recorded

Qualitative information

Non-natural beings

Notes
None
  • no information

Demonic pacts

  • no information

witches meetings

Notes
She was alone in the Glen and bitten by dogs out for a hunt while she was in the shape of a badger. They later found her in human form with lots of bites on her mouth and hide parts.

Meeting places

  • Glen of Corloy Glen

musical instruments

  • no information

Folk culture

  • Specific ritual acts
  • Shape changing
  • Sympathetic magic
Notes
Her purse was found by a man in town, and it contained pickles of quheit beir (wheat bere), great salt pieces, pieces of coal, thread, joint bones, and other things of various colours. She used the shear and riddle (sieve) to get gear for people.

Counter strategies

  • no information

white magic

  • no information

Elf/fairy elements

  • no information

Shape-changing

  • Animal Brok, [badger]

Ritual objects

  • Sieve
  • Thread
  • Shears

Religious motif

  • no information

Calendar customs

  • no information

Diseases or illness

  • Human death
  • Removal bewitchment
  • Cursing
  • Healing animals
Notes
Threatened a man who found and opened her purse, he died. She diagnosed his lamb problem Accused of killing 10 people.

Cause of witch's malice

  • no information

Other maleficia

Damage to property

  • no information

weather modification

  • no information

Notes
None

Other charges

  • Sorcery
Notes
None

Plea

Claimed bewitched
no
Claimed possessed
no
Admitted lesser charges
no
No defence
no
Claimed natural causes
no
Notes
None
Case Notes
She was tried and banished, and then a new indictment was drawn up later that incorporated that guilty verdict as item 8.
references
name notes
Process Notes JC26/1/13 See also PROC. S.R.O. LIST The project was unable to locate this source/reference at the NAS so were unable to check it. We doubt that it even exists.
Process Notes JC26/2 None